| 单词 | explicable |
| 例句 | And we all took the less explicable step of engaging the parlor of a suite in the Plaza Hotel. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z There was no explicable way she knew it, but she sensed this woman was the leader of this peculiar group, its matriarch. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z God, angels, and extraterrestrials have yet to come to our assistance; yet more and more phenomena have proved explicable by the dim reason of human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the colt’s eighteenth start, for no explicable reason, he finally won, clocking a sterling time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Living physiology should be explicable in terms of physics, biophysicists argued—forces, motions, actions, motors, engines, levers, pulleys, clasps. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Robert Boyle asked: And how will it be prov’d, that the Omniscient God, or that admirable Contriver, Nature, can exhibit Phaenomena by no wayes, but such as are explicable, by the dim Reason of Man? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If the gene was the central currency of biological information, then major characteristics of the living world—not just heredity—should be explicable in terms of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Hurtling themselves at the reader, they are too brief to be fully explicable, but too portentous to be ignored: What John Dos Passos’s “1919” Got Right About 2019 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Netflix also landed nominations for “Bodyguard” in the Outstanding Drama category, which is slightly more explicable than “Ozark” taking up valuable real estate there. "Game of Thrones," "Mrs. Maisel" rule the Emmy nominations — at the cost of "Better" Things 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z For reasons perhaps explicable only to himself, Avary adds touches of magic realism to the mix. ‘Lucky Day’ Review: A Revenge Film That Won’t Grow Up 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z It is also a deeply strange story about a strange man whose insecurities were all too ordinary and explicable. Cannes 2014: Foxcatcher review - Steve Carell gets to grips with his dark side 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Whether 2010 was an oasis, a mirage or a blip that’s explicable from any number of industry angles, it felt like a vision. Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? Discuss. 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z This seemed even less explicable when he then appeared onstage, looking fabulous, to present the award for direction of a musical. Critic’s Notebook: The Tonys Show Celebrates the Stage Without Any Real Theater 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z His pop megasuccess was serendipitous, explicable by no common measuring sticks. Music: On ?Recovery,? Eminem Reasserts His Core Values 2010-06-21T22:24:00Z "The Story of My Teeth" is a destabilizing read, a puzzle of a novel that at first seems explicable enough. Valeria Luiselli's 'The Story of My Teeth' is a collision of storytelling, lying and art 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Of the three, it’s Mr. Taylor whose way with music is the least explicable, the most miraculously illogical. Dance Review | Paul Taylor Dance Company: A Poet of the Body, Bending All the Rules 2010-02-25T22:44:00Z No, he couldn’t, but “Dybbuk,” like the more explicable and surefire “Fiddler on the Roof,” is one of the works in which, making amends to his own Jewishness, he opened up its traditions for us. Jerome Robbins, the Experimentalist 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Some of them may be explicable as long-overdue remedies to unjust neglect, but why did the spate of building happen when it did, in the first few years of the present century? London is now full of war memorials, but the oldest are still the best 2012-11-09T22:29:02Z Usually after Weekend Update comes the less explicable sketches – though, with Chappelle involved, they were way better than usual. Saturday Night Live: Dave Chappelle back to see in the Trump era 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z Franceschild shows how much behaviour is explicable in social as well as medical terms. Takin' Over the Asylum – review 2013-02-19T17:55:51Z Blackburn said the “failure” to ask Rush that question was “not explicable on any other conceivable basis other than that it was a deliberate decision”. Geoffrey Rush damages 'extraordinary and absurd', Daily Telegraph argues 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z "Coalition with the Tories is surely more than explicable in that context, isn't it?" he thinks, reading it through. Alarm clock Britain, Mr Clegg? It's about time you woke up to reality 2011-01-16T00:05:47Z It is too long, particularly in the first half of what the company describe as "explicable exposition expounded", but it has a driving energy. Oedipussy ? review 2012-02-09T17:55:01Z Even less explicable: a careening falsetto oooh-oooh solo from lead singer Dan Reynolds during “Thunder” — which felt audacious until you remembered that this is how drunk people sing the guitar solo at karaoke. Perspective | Imagine Dragons and the scourge of the rock-and-roll grave blockers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Besides succeeding as listening pleasure, “Labyrinth” challenges the view that classical music is a story of steady, explicable evolution. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z It's inexplicable in so many ways, and also explicable in so many ways. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z “After Laughter” feels like a break with that arc, and not a wholly explicable one. Paramore Tries to Find Itself in the ’80s on ‘After Laughter’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Indeed, the riddle of who would end up on the Iron Throne is answered poetically, if not altogether explicably, which is in keeping with the rest of season eight. As "Game of Thrones" ends, we have to ask: What do we expect from a series finale? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Our hero is Fran, whose fiancee dumped him four weeks ago, all too explicably. Honeymooner ? review 2011-01-20T22:14:00Z “It’s not explicable to me. I mean, I fly by the seat of my pants, musically.” Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Yet, despite the absence of mere surface logic, the music achieves an expressive continuity that satisfies on a deeper, less facilely explicable level. SSO with Emanuel Ax: mastery coupled with humanity 2012-11-16T17:48:31Z The only explicable reason for its appeal, he concluded, was the immature gaze of the audience. Now that 'Mad Men' has changed the TV landscape, what does it all mean? 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z A recurrent though explicable phenomenon in Birds and People is the way in which practising ornithologists and environmentalists seem discomfited when speaking of any emotional connection with birds. Wings of desire: why birds captivate us 2013-07-27T07:00:07Z “First of all: What’s not interesting to me is to make it all completely explicable,” he said. Decades Later, a Composer Revisits the Piano Concerto 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Something yet more moving and less explicable than those details is the way Indian dancers address elements larger than themselves in their performances. Dance Review: Indian Dances at the Erasing Borders Festival 2013-08-16T22:24:56Z It is polished hard, an almost perfect little comedy, but it is also spare and completely explicable; an unembossed calling card. Robot & Frank: vision of the future? 2013-03-08T09:21:04Z Even the four main characters would come and go each episode for no explicable reason. Girls: season five is a storming return to its best form 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z It seems to reside in no explicable aesthetic universe but makes a certain amount of sense if you are trying to shake up the world by throwing out the rules. Living With Freaky Furniture 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Sensibly, "Sound of Metal" won for best sound and film editing; less explicable is awarding "Mank" the prize for cinematography when better choices were available, including "Nomadland." "Nomadland" wins big at the 2021 Oscars, which made history — and some unfortunate choices 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z Keeping them sympathetic, relatable and explicable is crucial to the show’s continued success. Sophomore slump: can Westworld avoid a poor second season? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Life, according to Crick, was an epiphenomenon of physics and chemistry — complex, yes, but still explicable in molecular terms. What Does It Mean to Be a Living Thing? 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Please notice that for no explicable reason I have just startlingly shifted from the third person to the second person. Gene Weingarten: I gave this Beatles classic another listen. Big mistake. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z But does there linger a sense that these are somehow explicable categories of homicide and violence? Freed to kill again – and again: Theodore Johnson and the truth about domestic violence 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z It’s not usually something so explicable as tumors and immunotherapy. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z While occasionally unpleasant, the film never crosses the line from bearably chilling to unbearably gruesome, keeping its characters credible and its events explicable. | 'Scalene': Margo Martindale in Zack Parker?s ?Scalene? ? Review 2012-01-20T00:29:58Z Pretending our instincts are entirely tameable and explicable reduces the scope of human experience. I’m happy, so why do I fantasise about sex abuse? | Mariella Frostrup 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The logic here isn’t conclusive, but it is explicable. You can judge a book by its title 2013-04-01T18:27:00Z It is a gaping omission, inexplicable in scientific terms, but entirely explicable in terms of the politics of nutrition science. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The “magic,” Bugliosi contends, was and is explicable: Manson sensed and capitalized on the Family’s needs. The famous Manson true crime book, 'Helter Skelter,' reviewed in 1974 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z To the small but dogged reader, Scarry's compendiums suggest that all knowledge is explicable and easily mastered, from the function of ailerons to the etiquette of a party. Richard Scarry unfinished manuscript to be published 2013-04-11T11:49:15Z Not everyone is explicable or easily defined, nor should they be. Kathleen Turner on loving Marvel and disbelief at Roe v. Wade repeal: "We are not simply vessels" 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Given that jazz is essentially an African-American art form and the movies were made by white producers, the association is both all the more unpleasant and all the more unfortunately explicable. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z His confidence was explicable: England had played eight games against the Germans and won seven. The time of their lives 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z To Kai Wright, the host of the politically themed podcast “The United States of Anxiety” from WNYC, which debuted this past fall, such numbers are all too explicable. Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z In terms of the Audiard film, he admits, such theorising is explicable. Romain Duris: Hero or antihero? 2010-06-24T21:40:00Z Neil Diamond’s absence becomes highly explicable as the story of his quarrel with Berns unfolds. Review: ‘Bang! The Bert Berns Story,’ With Juicy Showbiz Lore 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Too often in Othello, Iago's motives for doing down his former comrade can be obscure, but Kinnear insists his villainy is explicable. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear: 'Othello and Iago are a bit cracked' 2013-04-10T19:00:00Z Well, maybe it’s a wee bit explicable: Chris, the Invite’s highest-scoring Loser, has been a winner or runner-up two hundred eleven times. Style Invitational: Blasted alphabetical contest! Give us an ABC (BCA, etc.) phrase 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Dr Marnerides said in his opinion there was "no evidence that a natural disease would explain his death" and concluded that death was "explicable on the basis of air embolism". Lucy Letby: Baby suffered devastating internal injury, court hears 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Both the winner and the commentator can look like geniuses explaining the perfectly explicable course of events. Analyze this: Chess rational and irrational 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Asked at the Baer Cup to explain some of his match play that seemed less than explicable, he replied: “I’m a very intuitive player.” Perspective | When chess is hard and cheating is easy, the next move is complicated 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Elemental Cognition is building on that progress, taking machine learning-generated predictions and feeding them into software that is designed to produce cause-and-effect inferences that are explicable to humans. One Man’s Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z “People sort of suspend their horror and say it might be explicable in wartime.” Up-Close Ukraine Atrocity Photographs Touch a Global Nerve 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z The pair said they understood the engineering works had "been scheduled since 2019 and that the FA was explicably made aware of them last autumn". Mayors ask for FA Cup semi-final switch 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z “When people are happy about the death of Russian soldiers, it is explicable,” she said. Hate for Putin’s Russia Consumes Ukraine 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Science, after all, is about what is observable, quantifiable, testable, predictable, explicable — and dreams are none of these things. Did Covid Change How We Dream? 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z So Democratic demoralization, for instance, is perfectly explicable in light of both widespread voter suppression and the rapidly dwindling possibility that President Joe Biden's bold economic promises will ever come to pass. GOP voters aren't acting like people who believe the Big Lie about "rigged" elections 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Backed up on their own 1, the Gamecocks explicably attempted to throw out of the end zone. Daniels, UGa defense lead No. 2 Dawgs past S Carolina 40-13 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Some physicists insist that everything, including humanity, is ultimately explicable in terms of particles pushed and pulled by gravity, electromagnetism and other forces. Talking to My Daughter Can Be Harder Than Learning Quantum Mechanics 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z I wonder, though, if it might not be a bad idea if that changed, and transfer fees were to become more, well, explicable. The Fall Guy 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z In isolation, all four of those defeats – two to Manchester City, one each to Chelsea and Sevilla – were explicable, but together they don’t look so pretty. Manchester United v Roma: Europa League semi-final – live! 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z That assumption rested on the idea that every single player would reach his maximum value, but it was, for a while, an explicable delusion. A French Soccer Team Clings to First Place as the Bottom Falls Out 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z It was all perfectly normal and explicable, but it required little imagination to see it as spring, writing a message across our sky. Rainy day in Washington ends in brilliant sunset, rainbows 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z "These sales are not explicable based on his prior trading history," the attorney said. Kelly Loeffler's husband dumped his own stock this spring, breaking years-long pattern 2020-11-28T05:00:00Z And much of what they have just done, out on the field, is not immediately explicable to them; it is, instead, a mixture of instinct and instruction internalized so deeply that the two are indistinguishable. Embracing the Value in Scarcity 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z “There are simply no explicable reasons why the alleged actions of this officer were taken.” Detroit officer charged in rubber pellet shooting at protest 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z "They were a threat to no one. There are simply no explicable reasons why the alleged actions of this officer were taken." Detroit police officer charged with assault after journalists shot with rubber bullets, injured 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z Liverpool’s excellence is the explicable part of what even Klopp finds inexplicable. City Runs Past Liverpool in a Race That Ended Months Ago 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z “I don’t think it’s explicable. I think it’s a terrible decision,” said Schettino. Funding cuts threaten ancient sites, warn Mexican archaeologists 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z The fact that this virus was allowed to become a global crisis is not explicable in terms of massive opposed interests. 'We are living through the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene' 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z In more recent times, educated people have generally seen coronavirus-style calamities as either inexplicable acts of God or as explicable, if surprising, natural events. Avenger planet: Is the COVID-19 pandemic Mother Nature’s response to human transgression? 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z From interviewing patients over nearly two decades, Rediger concludes that each recovery was “unique” and only partially explicable, but that all provide evidence of “a powerful link” between our identities and our immune systems. Spontaneous cures, seeing the stars, and secrets of invisible aircraft: Books in brief 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z And it will likely experience a range of variations and events along the way that are all explicable by known phenomena. Deep Breather 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z After all, if there is a constitutional necessity—and the evidence suggests that there is—then it might yet be explicable to more Americans. The Impeachment Question Democrats Didn’t Answer During the Debate 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Here the paper was presenting the unofficial quick count, where there was a gap — one that was, in fact, perfectly explicable — as though it and the official tally are one and the same. Media proclaims Bolivia's election fraudulent, embraces coup — but where's the evidence? 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z “If the researchers are right that populists are mostly angry, not anxious, their remarkable stubbornness immediately becomes explicable,” Shenkman said. How "dead-enders" could finally turn against Donald Trump, according to neuroscience 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z In this glorious construction, space is subsumed into spacetime, which is explicable as a dynamically evolving network of relationships. Space: The Final Illusion 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Pihana’s conclusion — that Galvin and the others should be charged with negligent homicide or dereliction of duty — is “explicable only as gross negligence or a mission with a predetermined outcome,” the report says. These Marines were falsely accused of war crimes. Twelve years later, they have vindication. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The Brexit disaster is only explicable by diving into that British culture that promotes the uniqueness and superiority of my fellow British citizens. Brexit: A cultural morphology 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z What is less explicable is how Macron became caught up in this deeply damaging situation. How Macron's 'Swiss army knife' bloodied the president's reputation 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z "There was no explicable reason for any of those things unless you were willing to believe the worst," Maddow concluded. Rachel Maddow hits the panic button after Trump-Putin summit: This is the “worst case scenario” 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Whatever the reason, there was something striking about an entirely explicable outcome for a change: A generally unassuming incumbent defeated a disgraced former officeholder by a considerable margin. 4 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Primary Elections 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Madonna’s mildly spicy Dress You Up was less explicably included. May contain masturbation: the woman weaponising pop's Filthy 15 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Some hall of fame snubs are explicable – hats off to the website doughtily campaigning on behalf of R Kelly – and others suggest the voters may have strict musical tastes. What, no Whitney? The biggest Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snubs ever – ranked! 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z It’s about a woman up against a bully and it makes other things explicable: This is what Trump did to Andrew McCabe, fired from the FBI hours before he qualified for his pension. Opinion | Stormy Daniels — not Robert Mueller — might spell Trump’s doom 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z As investigators try to determine what caused the bridge to fall, survivors and grieving families of the dead are left to cope with their sudden and explicable loss. Bridge collapse: Seconds separated those who lived and died 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z As investigators try to puzzle together what caused the bridge to crumble, survivors and the families of the dead are left grappling with the sudden and explicable loss. Bridge collapse: Out on errands, killed in an instant 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Rather than making the world more explicable, in Counterpart, AU makes the world more mysterious. The less we know about Counterpart’s alternate universes, the better 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z But there were also numerous barely explicable misplaced passes in the City half. Tottenham are the latest challengers floored by the Manchester City problem | Jonathan Wilson 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z As the custody hearing begins, the omniscient narrator reveals Bebe’s story, making explicable her postpartum crisis. Celeste Ng: ‘It’s a novel about race, and class and privilege’ 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z After Marshawn Lynch’s inexplicable dash off the sideline that earned him a very explicable ejection, think the Raiders RB might be giving away Airheads instead of Skittles for Halloween this year? And stop by Husky Stadium to get some cupcakes 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z A highly improbable event that's not explicable by natural laws—the definition of a miracle—happens every day in golf. Editor's Letter: A Pocketful of Miracles - Golf Digest 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z "While the particular creditor economies might change over time, the U.S. will tend to continue to run deficits larger than is explicable by other factors," he said. U.S. current account imbalance unlikely to diminish: researcher 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Less explicable was the pump thrown at Hillary Clinton last week during a speech at a Las Vegas casino. Joseph Rago’s Wit and Wisdom 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z “Genuine conscience and genuine responsibility are always, in the end, explicable only as an expression of the silent assumption that we are observed ‘from above,’ that everything is visible, nothing is forgotten.” Opinion | Trump’s 100th-day speech may have been the most hate-filled in modern history 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Some of this is explicable by more or less natural factors. How Europe Eats Its Young 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Human Rights Watch called the decision “explicable” and said Sudan continues committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. Obama Signs Executive Order Easing Sanctions Against Sudan 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z "While the particular creditor economies might change over time, the U.S. will tend to continue to run deficits larger than is explicable by other factors," he said. U.S. current account imbalance unlikely to diminish: researcher 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Putin is a thug, but most of its behaviour is explicable as Russia being Russia. Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read in this 'peak Trump' week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The additional bye weekend between the conference finals and MLS Cup is less explicable. Good Soccer Reads: Featuring U.S.-Mexico, Columbus and Brian Schmetzer 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z In this context, where someone like Woodfox is deemed a threat to the future of the US, the attitudes and practices of someone like Cain become, though not justifiable, explicable. Albert Woodfox: ‘I choose to use my anger as a means for changing things’ 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Those who claim to be possessed by evil spirits are people suffering from easily explicable psychological or psychiatric problems, they say. Exorcism in Italy a job 'too scary' for young priests - BBC News 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z "The government is using the coup to hush up its critics. It's not explicable within the legal framework." Turkey post-coup purges convulse society - BBC News 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z It was thought to be explicable in terms of will and commitment to God. History of Exhaustion Reveals We Could All Use Some Sleep Not more accurate or less odious, but more explicable on its own terms. Why Trump’s Crazy Talk About Obama and ISIS Matters 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Not in Ireland, stuck in a deep political impasse, only explicable via the feuds of the past. A terrible problem is born 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z But this is Donald Trump we’re talking about, a man who has proved that political physics are as explicable as gravity in a Wile E Coyote cartoon. Donald Trump controls his own hype cycle, and Fox News can't stop him | Jeb Lund 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Everything in nature, including the origins of living things, should be explicable by comprehensible laws. This is how science lost God: Atheism, evolution and the long road to Richard Dawkins’ latest Twitter controversy 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z All of this was perfectly understandable and readily explicable. A Point of View: 'How I learned to embrace my insomnia' - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z It was a craze to rival the Hula-Hoop, and even less explicable. Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Fear and mistrust of western institutions might also be explicable in the context of a history of exploitation by multinationals and colonial governments alike. Ebola has infected public discourse with a new xenophobia 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z The worst—and the least explicable—thing about Kennedy and his new cause is the company he keeps. RFK Jr. Joins the Ranks of the Anti-vaccine Scaremongers 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z A crush is undeniable, he writes, but barely explicable. The Advanced Metrics of Attraction 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z Those who insist that correlations are explicable must conclude that causal influences can go faster than light. Physics: Bell’s theorem still reverberates 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z In Australia, children of professionals are 2.7 times more likely to attend a highly selective university than their working-class peers but only half of this difference is explicable by high school grades, say the researchers. Poor pupils 'miss top universities' 2013-11-13T03:39:21Z There's a communications "dead-zone" around the Sun - not something easily explicable using real world rules. Can science fiction ever get the science right 2013-10-14T10:26:42Z This could be explicable if the Earth underwent a much bigger meteoric barrage than originally supposed, and at an earlier point in time. Does gold come from outer space? 2013-09-19T01:26:09Z Rather than reflecting problems at the 250-lawyer firm, people say, the departures are explicable on a case-by-case basis. DealBook: Big Name Is Leaving Boies’s Firm After a Year 2013-08-23T02:03:53Z Consistency. Sometimes good employees leave for clearly defined, explicable reasons, but often they leave for reasons that even they find hard to articulate. 4 Things That Keep Employees Loyal (Hint: It's Not Money or Perks) 2013-08-01T12:00:58Z The figures for leading US public universities show wealthier students are 3.3 times more likely to attend, with around 40% of the difference explicable by grades, says the study. Poor pupils 'miss top universities' 2013-11-13T03:39:21Z The penalty the South Africa referee Daniel Bennett then awarded Tunisia on the half hour, penalising Dare Nibombe for a push on Walid Hichri, seemed harsh but was at least explicable. Emmanuel Adebayor puts Cabinda behind him as Togo go through 2013-01-31T10:58:38Z In a sense, the fudge is not just explicable but sensible. Inflation changes: a classic British fudge 2013-01-11T00:19:50Z It follows that if you aren’t even on your way to the afterlife, the scientifically explicable NDE symptoms point to neurology, not paradise. The Death of "Near Death": Even If Heaven Is Real, You Aren t Seeing It 2012-12-05T15:18:38.800Z It suggests that such a crime would be more explicable, more easily rationalized, less worthy of moral outrage. If the Sikh Temple Had Been a Muslim Mosque — On Religion 2012-08-10T14:53:24Z In this model, the Big Bang is not the origin of the universe, but rather, they write, a fully explicable event with a ‘before’ and an ‘after’. While Physicists Celebrate Higgs, Cosmologists Fret About The Big Bang Model 2012-07-11T17:46:55Z I’m sure if I took a course on voice recognition software, people speaking texts into their car phones while driving wouldn’t appear so magical, but my ignorance renders what is explicable to be entirely mysterious. Room for magic: A conversation with Lyndsay Faye 2012-06-28T13:45:00.213Z Nonetheless, and for no explicable reason, the circus returns, as ever. Why Upfront needs to make drama out of a crisis 2012-05-16T16:47:06Z But this absolute indifference to truth whenever falsehood could subserve the interests of the Church is perfectly explicable, and was found in multitudes who, in other respects, exhibited the noblest virtue. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z But with those who regard the phenomena of Spiritualism as “not explicable” except by supernatural causes, it would seem that that doctrine, as also the not unimportant conditions of Time and Space, count for nothing. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z These facts are chiefly valuable, as furnishing cumulative testimony of the frequent recurrence of phenomena explicable by no known theory, and therefore as open to the spiritual hypothesis as any other. Ghosts and Family Legends A Volume for Christmas 2012-04-21T02:00:22.650Z The rapid growth of these communities in the thirteenth century is easily explicable. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z This antagonism is explicable by the character of the heresies that threatened the Christian Church in the Apostolic age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z To Joseph’s brethren so sudden and great a calamity seemed explicable only on the theory that it was retribution for the great crime of their life. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z It has been determined by various causes, some readily explicable, others involved in doubt. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z But in that case her conduct, though strange, was explicable. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z Still, the third is only explicable in case the table is not too heavy. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z We must examine whether events have tended in a given direction with a uniformity or a persistence that is not naturally explicable. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z The rationalist asks, How is this explicable from the supernatural standpoint? Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Many times the same facts are, or appear to be, explicable in two or three different ways. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Will remembered that the signalman at the junction was in the pay of General Carabaño, so that the omission of what would otherwise have been an essential precaution was explicable. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z The Carnival is obvious, and the disappointment is explicable, because things were expected to be different.” Lens Blog: Tomasz Wiech's Photographs of Poland's Misplaced Landscapes 2012-03-13T09:00:04Z When, combined with the indifference to human suffering, the thirst for blood, which the spectacles of the amphitheatre had engendered, they assuredly make the persecutions abundantly explicable. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z In the present stage we must treat, first, of the abstract psychical modifications by themselves, secondly, as morbid states of mind: the latter being only explicable by means of the former. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The first statement appears to be explicable by the shrinkage of all the mucous membranes during cholera collapse, for by this merely mechanical agency the inelastic epithelium must necessarily become detached. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z This is "explicable as resulting from descent with modification; but it is otherwise inexplicable." Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z On the dissolution theory they are decent and explicable, for death is always decent and explicable. Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington 2012-02-11T03:03:55.693Z It was a tremendous emotion with her—inexplicable in any other way—but perfectly explicable by "atavism." The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z This is explicable only on the supposition of the original elements being in eternal motion. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z These facts are explicable on the ground that the fat present is not consumed, and the accumulation in the cells is evidence of this lack of consumption. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Is not the failure of Spain explicable by the fact that she failed to realize this truth? The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Their strange malady only seems explicable by the presence in them of one of these spirits. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z To me this is only explicable on the supposition that his powers were failing through old age. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z That the universality of this distinction is still often overlooked even by professed writers on scientific method seems explicable by two simple considerations. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Has Bullish Cross identified some informational inefficiency in the market, or is this an explicable and reasonable state of things? Is Apple "Underappreciated"? Comparing Tech P/E Ratios 2011-12-05T14:56:20Z Sounds, too, shadowy, vague, and explicable by no natural or material cause—again as to such there could be no two opinions. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z But having learned this, we do not arrive at the conclusion that "the explanation of that which is explicable does but bring out into greater clearness the inexplicableness of that which remains behind." Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Paine is explicable only by the intensity of his Quakerism, consuming its own traditions as once the church's ceremonies and sacraments. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z His whole political system is explicable only by his theocratic Quakerism. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z In this case the bullet-wound and the kneeling position are points of correct detail which are hardly explicable on a subjective theory. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z “It’s very important to understand that these Gods came into being by an explicable scientific progression of incremental evolution.” | Richard Dawkins: Richard Dawkins, an Original Thinker Who Bashes Orthodoxy 2011-09-19T17:34:05Z The enormous thickness to which they attain seems only explicable by prolonged and repeated movements of subsidence, interrupted, however, as we know, by other movements of a contrary kind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z But what remained the least explicable part of the mystery was why the teacher had gone out at all in the heat of high noon. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z In the distance a peacock struts; and the scene is so cheerful that the smiling faces of Hals and his wife are quite explicable. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Now at that time the Charismata of teaching and knowledge must already have been weakened or extinguished in these communities, otherwise so strong an aberration would not be explicable. Supernatural Religion, Vol. III. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:34.690Z If such explanations were only valid, there could be no difficulty in believing anything, and every embarrassing circumstance would indeed be easily explicable. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z That the total density of the planet does not greatly exceed its observed amount seems only explicable on the supposition that some antagonistic force counteracts the effects of pressure. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Readily explicable as the uncanny incident was, there was no question of the grim seriousness of it. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z It is rare to find any of the uterine lesions referred to existing among insane women; and this is doubtless explicable for physiological reasons. Insanity Its Causes and Prevention 2011-08-29T02:01:05.400Z Its peculiar orientation has never been explained, but now, in view of the preceding analysis, is easily explicable. Problems in Periclean Buildings 2011-08-26T02:00:29.353Z With the advent of the wolfers, who poisoned them for their skins, they disappeared, the disappearance being only partly explicable, however, by the poisoning. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z The complete biological contrasts between the fossil contents of unconformable strata are sufficiently explicable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Bergson apparently holds that capacity for this kind of knowledge is less explicable by the struggle for existence than, for example, capacity for pure mathematics. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z For they think it easily explicable, that the learned doctor should often cure the diseased. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z If all that is good in men comes from their religions, and if religions are only explicable as inspirations from without, that, no doubt, logically follows. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z The anger of the Pardoner at this indignity is explicable only on the ground that he was so consummate an actor that he had literally forgotten himself in his part. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z The fact that the southern hemisphere is almost wholly covered with water appears explicable only on the assumption of an excess of density in the mass of that portion of the planet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z As he came nearer, he brandished a huge tulwar, and the split skulls and severed vertebræ of certain gentry lying in the garden became explicable. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Their meeting, therefore, in the doorway between their rooms would be readily explicable. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z Tales of queer happenings, not easily explicable, are apt to get on the nerves of the best of us. The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains 2011-06-16T02:00:18.377Z Incomprehensible as this may appear at a first glance, it is still explicable in a few words. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Whether this was some magical trick, really explicable by natural law, or effected by the assistance of evil spirits, I do not know. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z The increase in rifle prices created curious but readily explicable price discrepancies. At War: Military Small Arms & Libya: Security Puzzles, and Profiteers 2011-06-06T17:13:58Z I've no doubt that it's all quite normal—quite explicable on a perfectly scientific basis. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z The only good result that is supposed to flow from prayer does not really flow from prayer at all, but is explicable by purely natural facts. The Gospel Of Evolution From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures 2011-05-31T02:00:36.420Z Will it be necessary to come to the opinion, then, that absolute truths, being explicable neither by humanity nor by nature, subsist by themselves, and are to themselves their own foundation and their own subject? Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z To Eglah, his insistence upon returning to Nutwood was explicable solely on the hypothesis that speculative reverses had demanded the sale of his own property and swallowed the result; hence his resources were exhausted. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The recent mistakes, therefore, being almost entirely examples of calling bin Laden "Obama," may well be explicable as examples of assimilation. Why we keep calling Osama "Obama" 2011-05-05T01:01:00Z The non-existence and the incompleteness of these plays are explicable on other grounds than those of inclination. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z “In each case, the incident is either a very isolated one or it’s otherwise explicable,” he said. Scandals May End Sexism in Australia's Military 2011-04-21T18:05:21Z Tracking for the center of the hole, it explicably stopped just short. On Golf: Woods Is Steady, but Not the Way He Used to Be 2011-04-10T00:46:24Z The organism is regarded no longer by the majority of biologists as fully explicable in terms of mechanics and chemistry. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Certainly, neither was this explicable to the Count. Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) 2011-03-25T02:00:11.007Z We need a policy that is clear and explicable, and that marries our principles to the concerns of realpolitik. Tony Blair: Confronting Gadhafi Is Not Enough 2011-03-18T22:09:08Z At present there are machines which are practically useless owing to faulty workmanship, and on many machines bearings run hot for no apparent or explicable reason. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z The mystery is partly explicable in terms of economics. Ferguson: The Rise of Asia's Bachelor Generation 2011-03-06T05:00:00Z Not that there is in reality any—even the remotest—shade of truth in the newspaper paragraph; the entire event being explicable upon far less romantic and less interesting grounds. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z If we assume a secret marriage with Stella, indeed, the subsequent portion of the Vanessa story becomes more explicable. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z It was difficult because she was pledged not to tell him of the one thing that made this line of action not only explicable, but necessary. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z It is about uniting to overcome the divide between fact and faith - what is explicable and what is not. Final frontier 2011-02-20T01:29:04Z Had he been commanded to go forth and murder someone—that would have been explicable. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z The method is to our taste undramatic, but it is explicable enough. The Bacchae of Euripides 2011-02-06T03:00:51.907Z He took for granted that all the so-called supernatural facts relating to the Old and New Testaments were explicable on natural principles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Poor old fellow! the melancholy of your appearance becomes explicable to me. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z Some are undoubtedly explicable as forgotten experiences of the present life. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Her absence, he persisted in declaring, was explicable only by forced detention; and he again talked of withdrawing his abdication at this breach of the engagements made by the allies. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z The ratios of gold to liabilities vary very extremely from one country to another, without always being explicable by reference to the varying circumstances of those countries.... The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Quinlan insisted the sudden improvement in form shown by both horses was explicable. Bookmakers concerned Lingfield betting coup will alienate punters 2011-01-01T00:07:05Z Every feature of the plant is explicable on similar principles. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z This assumes that most behavioural differences between individuals are explicable by culture and socialisation, with biology playing at best the softest of second fiddles. The biology of business: Homo administrans 2010-09-23T10:46:00Z The avoidance of wine, therefore, by Rechabites, Nazirites, Arab dervishes and Pythagoreans, and also of leaven in bread, is parallel to and explicable in the same way as abstention from flesh. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" It may be urged that the literal interpretation of these words is incorrect, the liberation in this life being explicable in another manner. The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy Since it is only the tactless Hun who is lacking in psychological subtlety, this strange phenomenon must be otherwise explicable. The Sacred Egoism of Sinn Féin First, there are numerous points in the culture even of rude races which are not explicable otherwise than on the theory of development. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" But it is not so; the thing is not explicable mechanically. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History The error remains as an historical incident explicable perhaps as a result of the conditions under which it occurred, but in so far as it was an error, not a part of reality. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude He twisted his mouth about and grunted over Jenny's folly and double-dealing—but to his practical mind the present situation was the question; my story seemed to make that more, not less, explicable. The Great Miss Driver Some important facts of distribution are more easily explicable on this assumption. The History of the European Fauna In verses 9, 19 the manifest corruptions may be explicable from a Semitic background. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Some phenomena in the neighborhood of Stockholm appear to me only explicable on the supposition of the alternate rising and sinking of the ground since the country was inhabited by man. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology By the side of this marital form, there is in practice on the same islands a system of kinship only explicable by a still more primeval and now extinct form of communal marriage. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State His disappearance seemed explicable therefore only in one way. The Blind Man's Eyes No part of His teaching is explicable on the supposition that all ends at the tomb. Some Essentials of Religion The distribution of the two may be very different, but both should be explicable by the same series of geographical changes. Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras The author, a police official, takes up a standpoint which is certainly quite explicable in one of his position, but which is hardly suitable for a social historian. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory These structures were believed by C. Darwin to be explicable by sexual selection. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" She arose and with less astonishment than seemed explicable, recognized Judith Bray, who whispered gaspingly, “Let me in, let me in—you must!” McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 This restricted usage is probably explicable, in part at least, by the fact that the word, though distinctly modern in origin, is nevertheless older than the interpretation of social evolution that now finds universal acceptance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" It is well to have been fully convinced of the existence of the mystery, in an age far too apt to suppose that everything which is visible is explicable, and everything that is present, eternal. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) “Your stubborn rejection is explicable only by the supposition that you have deceived me,—that you have already bartered away the heart I long to call my own.” Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Religion, as yet, had but the slightest connection with morality, a circumstance explicable perhaps by the fact that it resumed the ethnical conscience of a race. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal The story of the affair that stirred up the Scottish king and his people has often been told, but it must be included here to make his attitude explicable. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 Even if it be thus explicable, it must be no less energetically condemned. The Forerunners But that no collected edition of his letters appeared till very shortly before this is explicable without any difficulty. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing In London it was otherwise, but not explicably. When Ghost Meets Ghost Alex's upcoming fate would even be held explicable if seen through this context. The Land of Look Behind It was a fact definitely explicable in terms of statistical history. Memoirs of Life and Literature —Their love of beautiful boys is explicable not merely by their interest in beautiful forms, but especially by their interest in individuality. Pedagogics as a System Much that he says even in the brief space of six or eight pages which he allots to Crabbe is unjust; much is explicably, and not too creditably, unjust. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Grafting bones and muscles might be miraculous, but they were explicable and everybody understood them. Prologue to an Analogue No, the chatter about Christ is only explicable on the ground that he was, and still is by millions, worshipped as a god. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Her face cleared as he showed her that he recognised Tante's case as so explicable. Tante These are explicable as awakenings from the nothingness of stupor into imaginations such as characterize the other manic-depressive psychoses. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type Your being in Venice and liking to be—which is never on any one's part a monstrosity—was explicable for him in other ways. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II The constant heat of the "desert" began, at last, to seem explicable. Flamedown The difference of opinion among Bunyan's friends is easily explicable. Bunyan The structure of the greyhound is explicable as a result mainly of selection of variations occasionally arising from unknown causes; but it is inexplicable otherwise. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I The ball sways idly to the push of some explicable submarine current. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 "I see it is," he returned genially, her guilty tremor not escaping his observation, but having at the same time no explicable significance to him. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel There is a very explicable tendency at present to ask for such one-sided reciprocity. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Such a difference between reciprocal crosses has also been found in other animals, and the experimental results, though sometimes more complicated, are explicable on the same lines. Mendelism Third Edition Having pointed out that this is a law of all things, we proceeded to show deductively that the multiform evolutions of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous—astronomic, geologic, ethnologic, social, &c.,—were explicable as consequences. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I The Divine Perfections, and other Attributes and Affections, how far explicable. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World It is a mystery, but beyond question it is explicable. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers In every instance telepathy—or clairvoyance, which is after all explicable itself only by telepathy—will suffice. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters The affair was easily explicable in the light of what Plutina had to tell. Heart of the Blue Ridge But now let us inquire whether, besides these most conspicuous structural and dynamic peculiarities of the Solar System, sundry minor ones are not similarly explicable. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I A large proportion of the good results are certainly fully explicable as the results of suggestion. The Sexual Life of the Child These phenomena are all explicable if descent with modification is true. Life of Charles Darwin Without this hypothesis," he adds, "man is unintelligible,—with it every phenomenon is explicable. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The globe is seamed and furrowed with long narrow markings, explicable as cracks in cooling. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Not only the directions, but also the velocities of rotation seem thus explicable. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I On the other hand, the withdrawal during childhood from the companionship of members of the same sex is explicable in a converse fashion. The Sexual Life of the Child Joffre's view was easily explicable, and it was hardly possible to quarrel with the military judgment it discloses. They Shall Not Pass That we should have been drawn to his exact waiting-place like needles to the magnet had a smack of the supernatural, but was in reality a simple and explicable happening. It, and Other Stories I should say that the popularity of M. Ohnet, like other popularities in England as well as in France, is quite explicable. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Perhaps in a more striking way than any others, these show how traits which seem inexplicable are explicable as due to the more frequent survival of individuals that have varied in favourable ways. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Magic is a science of sequences, but only of sequences supposed not to be explicable from ordinary experience. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV I use the expression “natural law” wherever I observe uniformity, explicable in its broader connections, and not dependent on human design. Principles Of Political Economy The legal order supposes a traditional common law, as the ecclesiastical order a traditional creed, and the organisation is explicable only by historical causes. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Their character and, at the same time, their comparative rarity are both easily explicable. A History of Elizabethan Literature But if not, the genesis of such tendencies is, as we shall see, not satisfactorily explicable. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I They are not all explicable as signifying corporeal pleasures to be gained, and pains to be escaped. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It is clear that all the peculiarities hitherto observed in the Saturnian ring-system are explicable so soon as we regard that system as made up of multitudes of small bodies. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy The excessive tameness, too, of the young rabbit, while easily explicable as a result of unconscious selection, is not easily explained as a result of acquired habit. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin It is more in harmony with the psychology of these naïve minds to assume simply an extreme state of "impressionism," explicable by the logic of feeling. Essay on the Creative Imagination But to this arrangement, which is explicable neither as the result of design nor of chance, the Nebular Hypothesis furnishes a clue. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I He stated that it was a remarkable paradox, easily explicable; and that is all. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II In criminal prosecutions a remarkable though very explicable distinction is drawn between the prosecutor and the defender. The Map of Life Conduct and Character The girl's expression suddenly changed, and with that change the laird of Stanesland's curious movements became very explicable, for her face was singularly charming when she smiled. Simon Chief factor: change in cerebral and local circulation.—Attempts at experimentation.—The oddities of inventors brought under two heads: the explicable and inexplicable. Essay on the Creative Imagination The evil of simony was, therefore, explicable enough, and perhaps ineradicable under the circumstances. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe The coincidence, which to me seems to be exaggerated by the statement, is explicable by a common relation to previous writers. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill In such a case their hostile reception of D'Entrecasteaux would be explicable. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century His conduct becomes perfectly explicable if we assume that by a secret agreement he secured Alaric's assistance for the execution of this scheme, which the preponderance of Gothic power in Illyricum and Thrace would facilitate. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Magnetism, spiritualism, and clairvoyance have all their mystical, as well as their explicable, side. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath I have always thought this, in itself so beautiful speech, the least explicable from the mood and full intention of the speaker of any in the whole works of Shakespeare. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher This is explicable on the ground of usage. The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents The weakness of the idea of the State among the peoples of the British Isles is explicable on geographical and historical grounds. Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government But the unusualness would seem to be always physically or physiologically explicable, and therefore raises only a complication, not a philosophical objection. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays As to the means, there can be but little if any variety of opinion that can greatly perplex; and as to the manner, information abundant and easily explicable is found in the Scriptures. The Ordinance of Covenanting The twenty-first book might have been written at any time between 1592 and 1595, and its most dismal groans be fairly explicable. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography Mozart, in short, was an explicable miracle, while Tiny Titus is an insoluble Sphinx. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 It was the image of a purely human Christ—a purely human, explicable, yet always wonderful Christianity. Robert Elsmere Bergson apparently holds that capacity, for this kind of knowledge is less explicable by the struggle for existence than, for example, capacity for pure mathematics. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays It is, at least, very explicable, for it is in working that I find my strength, my inspiration, my consolation! Fairy Fingers A Novel Howard hated Ralegh with a virulence not easily explicable, which appeared to be doubled by its abatement towards Cecil. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography The latter classes of phenomena are more general, but not a whit more explicable, than the former. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Less explicable still, on that view, is the admitted excellence of Boswell's book. Dr. Johnson and His Circle It is explicable only when we remember that to the unspoiled conscience of man as man democracy will ever be the most self-evident of truths. A History of the United States Most of the guests knew the doctor by sight, but in the explicable absence of their hostess, no one was sufficiently at ease to rise and bid the stranger welcome to another person's house. In Blue Creek Cañon With this clue in mind, his unusual procedures become more explicable without losing their charm. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It is not pretended, that all or any of these results, formerly known, are more intelligible or explicable than the one in question. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' The truth is that on his theory and Macaulay's it is not explicable at all. Dr. Johnson and His Circle All phases of feeling lay within the scope of his intuition, and the successive order in which he approached them bore no explicable relation to substantive incident in his private life or experience. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles And the fatigue of my razor is no more nor less explicable than my fatigue after a passage of arms with my mind. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women A powerful emotion, as well as an absorbing thought, may, it is true, annihilate or transform sensation; but this is explicable by the fact that the strongest emotions are excited by ideas. The Education of American Girls It is scarcely explicable by creationist: groups of aquatic, of vegetable feeders and carnivorous, &c., might resemble each other; but why as it is. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 These facts are explicable on Mr. Darwin’s principles. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays They've worked impartially and scientifically to find out whether a given unusual incident was explicable in terms of known natural laws, or was the result of some unknown force. Supermind And, if so, how is such a volta face in nature explicable on purely mechanical grounds, even if the process itself were so explicable? Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles I will only add, that I am but attempting to set down general rules, to which there may be exceptions, explicable or not. Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity I do not say that the smile makes the dismissal explicable; rather I a little wonder how she could have sent him away. Browning's Heroines Dr. G. B. then describes the experiment quoted by Elginensis as "a similar phenomenon, and apparently explicable on similar principles." Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc We have seen that every materialist doctrine is the expression of this idea, that physical phenomena are the only ones that are determined, measurable, explicable, and scientific. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Again, the peculiar outline and coloration of certain orchids—notably of our own bee, fly, and spider orchids—seem hardly explicable by any action of "Natural Selection." On the Genesis of Species If any one had recounted some famous feat of arms, or some romantic history of which the Colonel had been the hero, this impression would have been natural, or, at least, explicable. The Man With The Broken Ear This adaptation is not explicable in terms of the old mental “faculties.” The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale If the institution of marriage was thus originally based on the forcible transfer of a woman from her own to her husband’s clan, certain Indian customs become easily explicable in the light of this view. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) The night, with all its content, a thing of explicable fellowships, lay waiting patiently for those of its children who knew its face. Christmas A Story "Under what form known to us," he would seem to have asked, "may we assume an identity in all known things, so as best to cover or render explicable the things as we know them?" A Short History of Greek Philosophy And although Southey endeavours to maintain that the miracle consisted in Browne's preservation from infidelity, it must be admitted that to the ordinary mind that result seems explicable by natural causes. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) If she hadn't loved him her course might have been explicable. The Letter of the Contract The conviction gradually took possession of his mind that the puzzling facts of geographical range and geological succession which he observed wherever he went were explicable only on the hypothesis that species change. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Under the influence of the historic method it assumed a different aspect, and the mystery became very explicable. Historical and Political Essays In this paper I can give only a statement of some things which do not seem explicable on the hypothesis of mind-reading, thought transference, hypnotism, or subconsciousness. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 His works and life are traced out and lingered over, not with biographical exactness, but with some effort to make them explicable of the character of the great painter. Art in England Notes and Studies But the fact that the point of light was thus explicable, made it no less interesting and little less mysterious to the dwellers about the Perdu. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories The latter are directly explicable by the laws of physics and chemistry; the former, while in essence physico-chemical, are yet so very complicated that they cannot at present be reduced to physico-chemical terms. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology His anger rose from a cause perhaps more explicable to an onlooker than to himself. The Mermaid A Love Tale Is it not probable that there will be many things not explicable by us? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Ransom's conception of vice was purely as a series of special cases, of explicable accidents. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Curtis went to the instrument, and Steingall's rather amused tone was soon explicable. One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York Anything was explicable in the light of panic. The Captain of the Kansas I do not say that man has formulated this thought into speech, but that the trend of the intellect in our century has been such as is explicable only on this theory. A Hero and Some Other Folks It was a sound easily explicable though it startled him; for a moment later Anne Royaume appeared at the foot of the upper flight of stairs, and moved along the passage towards him. The Long Night Thus the Human mind labored and struggled and tortured itself for ages, to explain to itself what it felt, without confessing it, to be explicable. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Why anything of the tower remained at all was a mystery, explicable only by reason of the skeleton-like character of its construction. The Man Who Rocked the Earth Their data are so explicable in many cases, and so inconclusive in all, that they quite naturally provoke deeper disbelief and produce telling retorts. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Such emotions as attend the operation of conscience in those who follow its light alone without any theories as to its supernatural origin, are all of the character of reasonable or explicable emotions. A Candid Examination of Theism One after another the vital activities have been shown to be in greater or less degree explicable or comprehensible considered as physico-chemical operations of various degrees of complexity. Biology A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907 The confederacy that he formed with these men is not easily explicable, and probably it never has been rightly explained. Shadows of the Stage This anomalous fact has, we believe, never been noticed before; but it is explicable on the theory, and therefore confirms it. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence It is therefore by an error that Sbaralea and Wadding make it date from Viterbo, which is the less explicable that all the bulls of this epoch are dated from Orvieto. Life of St. Francis of Assisi Mrs. Evelyn thought the mystery was very easily explicable, as far as the mother was concerned; and changed the conversation. Queechy, Volume I Here, too, the fundamental problem is, how far the process may be mechanically explicable or comprehensible, how far it is susceptible of formulation in physico-chemical or mechanistic terms. Biology A lecture delivered at Columbia University in the series on Science, Philosophy and Art November 20, 1907 And the adherence of the United States to the Charter of London in August 1945, under which the Nazi leaders were brought to trial, is explicable by the same theory. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Much of this may be owing to perspective, but granting the reality of the fact, it is still explicable on the same general principles. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence And a disposition like this—explicable but odious—did no doubt exist in the England of those days. Abraham Lincoln There were resemblances, explicable as the result of parallel evolution. Operation: Outer Space The simplicity with which the narrators record omens and occurrences easily explicable in themselves, but invested by their surcharged feelings with a miraculous character, is highly natural. Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" The appearance to the contrary presented in animal and social life is easily explicable on psychological grounds. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The cause is local, and the Samiel and the sand storm of the desert, is but another phase of the question, explicable on the same general principles. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence This diversity of result is explicable on the basis of observations made by Prof. Zuntz, who was himself experimented upon, as to his subjective heat sensations during the experiments. Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 The founders of these cities are so largely men of Eastern birth, the means of their expansion are so largely advanced by Eastern capitalists, that this tendency is easily explicable. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin He here shows that not merely is life explicable only as a probation, but that probation is only possible under our present conditions, in our present uncertainty. An Introduction to the Study of Browning If we would believe the adherents of religion, nothing could be explicable in the world without it; nature would be a continual enigma; it would be impossible for man to comprehend himself. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense The growth of intolerance is quite explicable, but the explanation is not necessarily a justification. Practical Essays By the light, too, of these same beliefs, the inwardness of the moral end assumes an explicable meaning. Is Life Worth Living? He detected a difference in the girl that was not explicable to him, and imagined that she was still angry. In the Roaring Fifties These wonders are so easily explicable that they may be historical. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 Attraction would thus become the cause of a sort of movement which would seem to be explicable solely by an impulsive force. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men But if this apparently vital operation were explicable as a simple mechanism, might not other vital operations be reducible to the same category? Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Turning to the factor, "adaptation," we find that this also must presuppose, in order to be explicable, some quality of aggressiveness on the part of the organism. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays The faith, the enthusiasm, the constancy of the first Christian generation is not explicable, except by supposing at the origin of the whole movement, a man of surpassing greatness. The Life of Jesus Their laws, social institutions, customs and calendar show many peculiarities, explicable on the supposition that they have preserved the ancient usages of pre-Mohammedan Java. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 The preface will explain all that is explicable. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals But not only is the extent of vocal intervals thus explicable as due to the relation between nervous and muscular excitement, but also in some degree their direction, as ascending or descending. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Only on some such grounds are explicable the raging exclamations he is reported to have permitted himself to lately use towards Johannesburg and the cause of reform upon which it is so earnestly engaged. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs The desk as seen varies with the relation to the body in certain ways that we regard as natural and explicable. An Introduction to Philosophy In China it is confined to the north and its presence is easily explicable by the genuine enthusiasm of Khubilai and the encouragement given on political grounds by the Ming and Manchu dynasties. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 This, however, is explicable on the ground that the latter is a stimulus to which the animal would not be likely to become accustomed so soon as to the tactual. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. "The fact of the Resurrection and belief in the fact is not explicable by any antecedent conditions apart from its truth." The Things Which Remain An Address To Young Ministers Analogous cases of the power of high emotion to hold physical wants in abeyance are sufficiently familiar to make so extreme an instance explicable. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII But these examples, whatever we may think of them, are but some of the most moderate, which Montgéron himself admits to be explicable on natural principles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 The slang of criminals is also explicable on the same principle. Crime and Its Causes This in all probability is explicable by the fact that the colors acted as aids at the entrance, whereas at the exit there was no such important associational material. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. All the peculiarities of dream life are explicable as the incoherent effort, due to some physiological stimulus, of certain organs, or of the cortical elements of a brain otherwise asleep. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Her own selection of San Juan was explicable; the thing to wonder at was what had given the hardihood to the first men to stop here and make houses and then homes? The Bells of San Juan Had he ever allowed monetary considerations seriously to concern him, he might have been troubled by an untoward and not easily explicable phenomenon. Success A Novel And except this be the case, the Quakers conceive some of the passages, which they suppose to relate to this subject, not to be so satisfactorily explicable as they might be rendered. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 The apparently anomalous results obtained in the early investigations are in part probably explicable on this basis. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Through condensation of the dream certain constituent parts of its content are explicable which are peculiar to the dream life alone, and which are not found in the waking state. Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners Its origin is explicable if we imagine that the Indo-Aryans were an invading people with an unusual interest in religion. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Could he make himself explicable without explaining too much? Success A Novel If the charge against him was at last dismissed, because the accusers did not think it worth while to come to Rome to prosecute it, St. Luke's silence is more explicable. Outspoken Essays Let one suggest that the only cure for such deeds is in the uplift of the doer and our rage is even worse and less explicable. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil This phenomenon, according to M. Brillouin, is perfectly explicable by a theory similar to the theory of gratings. The New Physics and Its Evolution This collection of beliefs is possibly explicable as a result of the view that the condition of the soul, which is continuous from birth to birth, is stronger for good or evil than its surroundings. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 The lives of the Saints are full of incidents explicable on the same lines: exhibiting again and again the dramatic realization of traditional ideas or passionate desires. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day The ways of it and everything in it were regular and orderly, predictable, explicable not eccentric, erratic, baffling and inscrutable. The Unity of Civilization This is explicable enough as a difference of view on distant races with whom they had no contact. Hochelagans and Mohawks A Link in Iroquois History Is her sudden harsh turn against her explicable not as personal inconsistency or womanly prejudice, but as due to a gleam of insight? Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Other miraculous attainments are such that they should be visible to others, but are probably explicable as subjective fancies. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 The first, as you have truly observed, has its roots in consanguinity or association, the second in a lively hope of future comfits, and either is sufficiently explicable. My Friend Prospero The one is only approximately explicable in terms of the other. Aspects of Literature But it is cause for encouragement, rather than for dismay, that the slowness of Christian advance is in part historically explicable, sad as is the explanation. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow The instances adduced by Dr H. in support of his theory, are explicable on another principle, viz. that every excitement of mind or body is followed by a depression precisely proportioned to its intensity. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 As a trout-fishing guest of the castle I found the retainers of this excellent feudalism interesting enough and generally explicable. Somewhere in Red Gap But the third has its roots apparently in mere haphazard and causelessness, and isn't explicable by any means whatsoever, and yet is far and away the violentest of the three. My Friend Prospero We are, however, dealing with a national life explicable only by reference to a very exceptional and gloomy history of religious persecution. Ireland In The New Century There are certain modifications of the erotic life which are explicable only when we recollect that under environmental influences situations which originally did not call up an emotional response come later to do so. Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family From the trees and bushes crept legions of tall, gaunt shadows, and whilst some of these were explicable, there were others that certainly had no apparent counterparts in any of the natural objects around them. The Sorcery Club She was the more drawn to him from some scarce explicable sense of his weakness. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance His unnatural lethargy was gradually passing away into a more explicable fatigue, no longer speechless. Flames None at least that is palpable, or explicable, to the world. The Dangerous Age He would have smiled at the dictum of Emerson: "a beauty not explicable is dearer than a beauty of which we can see the end." Edward MacDowell The unconquerable dislike of men of principle, like Mazzini, to joining hands with the author of the coup d'état was perfectly explicable. The Liberation of Italy Now, if Lord Byron knew that his wife had a deadly secret that she could tell, all this conduct is explicable: it is in the ordinary course of human nature. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time Finally, before one reached the limits of the explicable there was a pleasant young man with a lot of dark hair and very fine dark blue eyes, whom everybody called "Teddy." Mr. Britling Sees It Through The cause is, however, explicable; to sing is-as natural to man as to speak, and uncivilized nations are not likely to speculate whether singing has ever been invented. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs Some part, at least, of what appears as Japanese bad faith is explicable in this way. The Problem of China The startling position taken up by Mr. Myers in his article in the National Review, is easily explicable. Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men In the old arctogæal continent, for instance, in what is now Europe, Asia, and North America, the glacial period made a complete, but of course explicable, change in the faunal life of the region. African and European Addresses The earliest interference with commerce in liquors appearing among the Scottish acts of parliament is very imperious and comprehensive, but not very explicable in its objects. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 418 Volume 17, New Series, January 3, 1852 It should not be hard for the general reader to understand that the influence which is the theme of this dissertation is real and explicable. The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature The apparent predominance of physicians is easily explicable. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion All over the world agricultural peoples practise elaborate ceremonies explicable, as Mannhardt has shown, on animistic principles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Every event in the history of the world and of man is explicable, as the bursting into new form of this elemental, all-pervading power. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher So she walked briskly to the house, with a strange feeling of relief and joy, which she was quite unable to account for in any explicable way. Halcyone As regards Mr. Mordey's observation, he thought the action explicable on the theory of the leading condenser current acting on the field magnets. Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 Everything else in Christian or secular history, compared to it, seems easy and explicable; and it was achieved by the love of Jesus. The Jesus of History Policies of commercial restriction which were justifiable or at least rationally explicable in the sixteenth century lasted on, proof against innovation or improvement, until the eighteenth century and later. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century The fairy rings, too, which puzzled our ancestors, are explicable by a natural process. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor By definition a miracle is an event not explicable in terms of ordinary human experience. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth So the narrow rectangular network of an American city is explicable only by the unthinking persistence of the peasant thrift, which grudges good land to p. Civics: as Applied Sociology All other acts of consciousness are comparatively plain and explicable. Sermons to the Natural Man Antonyms: tyro, bungler. explain, v. expound, elucidate, unfold, interpret. explainable, a. explicable, interpretable, solvable. Putnam's Word Book This interest is peculiarly subject to fluctuations; some of which in the past have been less explicable than the one it is now undergoing. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 The early hold of civilisation upon Kent is explicable. The Historic Thames These views are explicable by the laws of physiology, but this is not the place for such disquisitions. International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 3, July 15, 1850 All things in their fundamental nature are not nameable or explicable. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 But what influence the air can have in this point is hardly explicable. Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 The whole occurrence then became very naturally explicable to me. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English The object of whitening the walls of the Tower is again explicable by the very reasonable conjecture that it would so serve as a landmark over the long, flat stretches of the lower river. The Historic Thames Not exactly, nor with certainty; which is not wonderful: But they are still less explicable in the hypothesis of dry solution, as must be apparent from what has been already said. Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) Vast numbers of such stories, not explicable by the now rejected theory of ‘animal magnetism,’ have certainly been told. Cock Lane and Common-Sense Her inexplicable vanishing from the supper-party, never explained, but easily explicable now, perhaps. The Pretty Lady A small spot upon the east end of the island presented a phenomenon which seemed not easily explicable by any known laws of that class of natural history to which it alone was referable. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 The passion and throb of humanity are replaced by a subtler and less easily explicable charm; beauty becomes a perfectly balanced and finely modulated harmony. The Later Works of Titian And he had sympathized with her for Marguerite's quite explicable defection. The Roll-Call Indeed the occurrence is not very explicable on any principles, as a detail not visible without search was sought and verified, and that by a habitual mocker at anything out of the common way. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts Volcanic eruptions are easily explicable on this principle,—the volcano being simply a vent for the passage of heated and molten matter, which the elevating pressure of the liquid below tends to eject. The Story of the Herschels It is an astonishing thing for one so young to have done, explicable psychologically on the existence of a lively sympathy between the great lady and the poet-painter. Giorgione It contains nothing unusual, and is probably perfectly explicable psychologically by means of dreams. The Egyptian Conception of Immortality “That is what I always say to myself,” she agreed, with more interest than he found explicable. Between the Dark and the Daylight The whole universe is our world and it is all explained by the scientists, or is explicable. A Tramp's Sketches His mistake as to the number of Indian dead is easily explicable. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Yet I think all this is perfectly explicable on the basis of natural evolution. Giorgione As for Professor Murray, his remarks are explicable only on the assumption that he has never read this story in the original. Primitive Love and Love-Stories In one way, of course, these facts might be explicable on the supposition that Plattner has undertaken an elaborate mystification, on the strength of his heart's displacement. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories It is either an invention, pure and simple, or else it is perfectly explicable. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life But hitherto, in spite of illustrations, the literature of woman has fallen short of its function, owing to a very natural and a very explicable weakness—it has been too much a literature of imitation. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy That the phenomena were facts, and facts explicable by no known natural law, he was forced, like others in similar positions, to believe and admit. McClure's Magazine December, 1895 And it is not at all unimportant, but on the contrary most important, that this course of things in politics and elsewhere should be lucid, explicable and defensible. All Things Considered Daniel Deronda, pure young fellow whose influence for good over men and women is marvellous, and explicable only upon the principle that virtue is mightier than vice. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook It is explicable perhaps by the supposed irregularity of Declan's preaching. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore Some of the superstitions of the Indians are explicable only on the ground of their belief in magic. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers The quarrel between the representatives of the two interests is easily explicable historically. Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education Thus a phenomenon, curious but explicable, was happening under these strange conditions. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon It is explicable perhaps by the supposed irregularity of Declan's preaching. The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore But while this queer tableau of baffled rage was enacting itself on the starboard bow of the Jasper B., a no less strange and far less explicable thing was occurring on the port side. The Cruise of the Jasper B. This is no doubt partly explicable by the special circumstances of America, where the recent immigrants are apt to be voteless. Proposed Roads to Freedom But in the annals of this sort of charity we find fantastic excesses of devotion recorded which are only explicable by the frenzy of self-immolation simultaneously aroused. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature Every image is explicable to the youngest hearer, while none suggests actual familiarity, because the actors are not children, but pigs. How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell But Beula's almost confusional state concerning the facts of her family life seemed quite explicable in the light of what we at last ascertained. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology Robespierre, the most influential man of the Revolution and the most frequently studied, is yet the least explicable. The Psychology of Revolution Anna herself seemed as happy, and for more explicable reasons. The Reef The prevalent silence seemed to contain a faint sound, explicable as a breathing, or a sobbing, which came from the other end of the building. Jude the Obscure That is quite simple; that is easily explicable. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson If Hennepin, as he avers, really expected a party of traders at the Wisconsin, the course he now took is sufficiently explicable. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 But the pleasure in both cases is explicable from the same final cause, the acquisition of knowledge and enlargement of our views of nature: on this account it is natural to treat of them together. Poetical Works of Akenside The evil fate which made this island the theatre of the two greatest of the servile wars is explicable on many grounds. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate By some mysterious process, not clearly explicable to himself, he contrived to lay aside a portion of his dress, and to dispose himself within the folds of balmy bedclothes that awaited him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 To us there would have been something repugnant in her challenging her Penance as a Dowry! the fact is explicable, but how few to whom it could have been renderd explicit! The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 That continuous cause is God, and the whole world is a creation perpetually continued, and is only comprehensible as continuous creation and is only explicable by a Creator. Initiation into Philosophy If this had been confined to the destruction of images to which idolatrous worship was offered, it would be explicable and justifiable, but it extended to the most innocuous objects. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe Mrs. Evelyn thought the mystery was very easily explicable as far as the mother was concerned; and changed the conversation. Queechy We are always disposed to dwell on such of their elements as are explicable and can in some way be traced to moral or intellectual sources. Wordsworth It was the image of a purely human Christ—purely human, explicable, yet always wonderful Christianity. Robert Elsmere Yet this silence is quite explicable; for of the three participants none has heretofore written for publication; and of my two associates, one is a quiet, retiring man, the other is erratic and forgetful. A Strange Discovery I have always thought this in itself so beautiful speech, the least explicable from the mood and full intention of the speaker, of any in the whole works of Shakspeare. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Without this hypothesis, man is unintelligible; with it, every phenomenon is explicable. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge It is explicable as a challenge to the tradition of Europe. Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Such phenomena—and they might be largely multiplied—are only explicable upon one hypothesis. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts The one explicable, the other inexplicable; the one from the hand of patient skill—of talent; the other a result of force mysterious, divine. A Strange Discovery The conscious life of the individual, that cannot be understood from the experience of the individual, becomes explicable from the inherited experience of the race. Recollections of My Childhood and Youth She displays, from the opening scene, a weakness that is explicable, but excludes all evidence of her energy. Henrik Ibsen The sacrifice is not readily explicable by material causes. The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity In declaring that one is not a mystic, one makes no claim to be able to explain everything, nor does he maintain that all things are explicable in scientific terms. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform The parts are only explicable when we see the whole. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark There is nothing in history to approach to the gigantic arrogance of Jesus Christ, and it is only explicable on the ground of His divinity. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Everything is explicable within this limits of nature; but supernatural agency is also vaguely suggested, and the reader's imagination is stimulated, without any absolute violence to his sense of reality. Little Eyolf Stafford and Lois loved each other—with a love which was all too natural and explicable in the light of our present knowledge. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People The ascent of sap is not explicable on the mechanical grounds ordinarily advanced, such as capillary attraction. Autobiography of a Yogi |
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